40.0% of residents of Sleepy Hollow speak English at home.
50.9% of residents speak Spanish at home (40% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 29% speak English not well, 16% don't speak English at all).
7.2% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (68% speak English very well, 20% speak English well, 12% speak English not well).
0.8% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (37% speak English very well, 63% speak English well).
1.4% of residents speak other language at home (24% speak English very well, 15% speak English well, 61% speak English not well).

Foreign born population: 4,283 (41.8%)
(40.8% of them are naturalized citizens)

Year of entry for the foreign-born population in Sleepy Hollow, New York

8082010 or later

1,2692000 to 2009

9961990 to 1999

1,1371980 to 1989

3811970 to 1979

409Before 1970

First ancestries reported:

Italian: 535 (7.5%)

American: 317 (4.4%)

Portuguese: 206 (2.9%)

Irish: 169 (2.4%)

German: 80 (1.1%)

European: 68 (1.0%)

Russian: 61 (0.9%)

Luxemburger: 52 (0.7%)

English: 45 (0.6%)

Swedish: 44 (0.6%)

Polish: 33 (0.5%)

Jordanian: 30 (0.4%)

Northern European: 29 (0.4%)

Armenian: 28 (0.4%)

Canadian: 23 (0.3%)

Jamaican: 22 (0.3%)

Swiss: 19 (0.3%)

Dutch: 18 (0.3%)

African: 18 (0.3%)

Brazilian: 17 (0.2%)

Slovak: 17 (0.2%)

Croatian: 15 (0.2%)

Hungarian: 13 (0.2%)

Danish: 12 (0.2%)

Ukrainian: 10 (0.1%)

Eastern European: 9 (0.1%)

Czech: 8 (0.1%)

Iranian: 6 (0.08%)

French: 5 (0.07%)

French Canadian: 4 (0.06%)

Most common places of birth for foreign-born residents (%):

Dominican Republic

Sleepy Hollow:

43.3% (1,855)

New York:

11.0% (494,465)

Ecuador

Sleepy Hollow:

29.8% (1,276)

New York:

4.0% (178,569)

Mexico

Sleepy Hollow:

5.1% (220)

New York:

5.2% (232,937)

Italy

Sleepy Hollow:

3.8% (162)

New York:

2.2% (97,617)

Chile

Sleepy Hollow:

3.2% (139)

New York:

0.2% (10,919)

Portugal

Sleepy Hollow:

2.8% (120)

New York:

0.2% (10,847)

Trinidad and Tobago

Sleepy Hollow:

1.9% (81)

New York:

2.2% (97,247)

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

This state: 4,431

Other state: 938

Northeast: 247

Midwest: 184

South: 244

West: 276

92.2% of Sleepy Hollow residents lived in the same house 1 years ago.Out of people who lived in different houses, 40.6% lived in this county.Out of people who lived in different counties, 59.2% lived in New York.